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KEN KENNEDY
Pages 172-175

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... His research on software paved the way for the widespread use of computers in science and engineering. Ken graduated summa cum laude from Rice University in 1967 and returned four years later, after earning one of the first doctorates in computer science awarded by New York University (NYU)
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... HiPerSoft was the administrative home at Rice of several multi-institutional projects, including the Virtual Grid Application Development Software Project, an NSF-sponsored collaboration involving seven universities, and the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute, a consortium of five universities and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Remembered at Rice for his love of students and of teaching, Ken was a Ph.D.
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... His contributions to the field were recognized by his peers when he was awarded the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from ACM SIGPLAN. Ken authored more than 200 technical articles and wrote two books.
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